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Article #1317Re: How to quote % in vi/ex ': ' escape
From: Heinz Herbeck
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:30
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:30
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In <Bx97Dq.43x@sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes: >But \% does. Arrgh ! Not in a thousand years would I have thought of something that simple, straightforward and obvious :-) >ObQuiz: find a situation where you need to quote a character with \^V . :%s/$/\^V^M to add a CR at the end of each line, while :%s/$/^V^M gives you extra LFs. Now where's my quiz price ? :-) >Have a nice day, >Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl Thanks for your help (and to all others who responded), MfG HH -- - Heinz M. HERBECK heinz@marvin.tuwien.ac.at Tel. +43 1 58801-4107 - - Technical University of Vienna, Austria // Institute for Computer Graphics - - Hardware, n. : The part of a computer system that can be kicked. -
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!email!marvin.tuwien.ac.at!heinz From: heinz@marvin.tuwien.ac.at (Heinz Herbeck) Subject: Re: How to quote % in vi/ex ': ' escape Message-ID: <heinz.689445001@marvin.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Nntp-Posting-Host: marvin.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University of Vienna References: <heinz.689356033@marvin.tuwien.ac.at> <Bx97Dq.43x@sci.kun.nl> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:30:01 GMT Lines: 26